SCCM Console Extensions - Find the GUID
I wrote some about this topic in a post a while ago… did some more scripting around this today.
This VBScript will read the AdminConsole.xml and look for NameSpaceGuid’s, when it find one it will create a subdirectory (from where it is started) with the GUID and after that it will create a XML-file within that directory.
The XML-file then points to an VBS-file with a couple of parameters. (Look further down for an example of a nice VBScript to use)
Tip: Backup AdminUI\XmlStorage\Extensions\Actions before you start to play around with this.
Const cVbsFile = "testExtension.vbs" ' The file to call on right-click Const cHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002 Set oReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\default:StdRegProv") oReg.GetStringValue cHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ConfigMgr\Setup", "UI Installation Directory", sSccmPath Set oReg = Nothing sSourcePath = Replace(WScript.ScriptFullName, WScript.ScriptName, "") Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set oFso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set oFile = oFso.OpenTextFile(sSccmPath & "\XmlStorage\ConsoleRoot\AdminConsole.xml", 1) Do While oFile.AtEndOfStream <> True sText = Trim(uCase(oFile.ReadLine)) If InStr(sText, "NAMESPACEGUID=") Then ' Read the GUID from NameSpaceGuid param sGuid = sText sGuid = Right(sGuid, Len(sGuid) - InStr(sGuid, "NAMESPACEGUID=") - 14) sGuid = Left(sGuid, InStr(sGuid, """")-1) if not oFso.FolderExists(sSourcePath & sGuid) Then WScript.Echo sSourcePath & sGuid ' Create the GUID folder oFso.CreateFolder sSourcePath & sGuid ' Create the XML-file with current Guid, Name & ResourceID as parameter to source-VBScript Set oXmlFile = oFso.CreateTextFile(oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%TEMP%\snowland-guid-locator.xml"), True) oXmlFile.WriteLine "" oXmlFile.WriteLine " " oXmlFile.Close ' Copy XML to GUID-directory with name "snowland-GUID.xml" as name oFso.CopyFile oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%TEMP%\snowland-guid-locator.xml"), sSourcePath & sGuid & "\snowland-" & sGuid & ".xml" End if End If Loop oFile.Close" oXmlFile.WriteLine " " oXmlFile.WriteLine "" & sSourcePath & cVbsFile & " " oXmlFile.WriteLine "" & sGuid & " ##Sub:Name## ##Sub:ResourceID## ##SUB:ItemName## ##SUB:NetworkOSPath## ##SUB:value## " oXmlFile.WriteLine "
So… when you restarted the console you will se GUID’s showing up. To get those GUID’s to the clipboard use a testExtension.vbs like this
Set oFso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") ' Create a temporary file Set oFile = oFso.CreateTextFile(oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%TEMP%\sccmXmlReader.tmp"), True) ' Loop thru arguments For i = 0 to WScript.Arguments.Count-1 sOut = sOut & Wscript.Arguments(i) & VbCrLf ' Write to file oFile.WriteLine Wscript.Arguments(i) Next ' Close the file oFile.Close ' Type the file to the clipboard oShell.Run oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe /c type %TEMP%\sccmXmlReader.tmp | %SystemRoot%\System32\clip.exe"), 1, True ' Delete the file oFso.DeleteFile oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%TEMP%\sccmXmlReader.tmp"), True ' Send a message to the user MsgBox sOut, vbOKOnly, "Copied to clipboard"
Will try to do a post about how to find the SUB’s…